Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — WOOD BLOCKS FOR FLOORING [ARTICLE]

WOOD BLOCKS FOR FLOORING

Material Already Used Extensively in Street Paving Now Being Employed in Construction Indoors. Creosoted wood blocks, already extensively used as paving material for city streets, have been eoming into use as flooring for the last four or five years, according to Uncle Sam’a forest service. Its durability, noiselessness under heavy traffic, and sanitary properties are its chief advantages for paving .and also give it special value for making floors, especially for use where heavy trucking, the moving of heavy machinery, or other severe use makes the maintenance of floors a serious problem. Its rather high cost is its chief disadvantage. Wood block is now widely used for flooring in factories, warehouses, machine shops, foundries, various types of platforms, wharves and docks, and for such miscellaneous purposes as hotel kitchens, hospitals, laundries, and slaughter houses. Possibly one* of the oddest of these uses is for the floors of wild animal caged »ad runways. Notwithstanding the recent facrease in the use of wood block for these purposes, It is believed that the growth of this industry will be even more rapid in the future. These floors are well liked by the workmen be-, cause they are easy on the feet.